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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index
Becoming Angry: The Gendering of Emotions in Early Modern England -- - Angry Readers: Texts from the "Woman Controversy" -- - Angry Wives: Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam -- - Angry Wives as Political Subjects: Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II -- - Angry Lovers: Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania -- - Angry for God: Anne Askew's Examinations -- - Afterword: The Politics of Anger
"Recognizing that ideas about emotions vary historically as well as culturally, Kennedy draws from recent critical work on emotions by historians, literary scholars, philosophers, and psychologists, as well as comparative studies of the emotions by cultural anthropologists. She contends that ideas about women's anger in early modern England are both like and unlike those in twentieth-century America. Although women's anger is often dismissed as irrational in both eras, for instance, in the early modern era women were thought to become angry more often and more easily than men due to their inherent physiological, intellectual, and moral inferiority." "Kennedy demonstrates the importance of class and race as factors affecting anger's legitimacy and its forms of expression. She shows how early modern assumptions about women's anger can help to create or exaggerate other differences among women. Her close scrutiny of anger against female inferiority emphasizes the crucial role of emotions in the construction of self-worth and identity."--Jacket
